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you can have vertical integration. But having an advantage at one layer should no be leveraged as advantage to another layer. Apple is free to make a music pla
by malka 5y ago
you can have vertical integration. But having an advantage at one layer should no be leveraged as advantage to another layer.
Apple is free to make a music player. But its music player should abide by the same rules as other players in the market.
Either Apple Music has its income cut by 30%, or no one does.
- simondotau 5y agoPersonally I’d have no problem if Apple was forced to give all streaming music services like Spotify a sweetheart (below cost) percentage, say 5%, which wouldn’t cover the totality of merchant fees, gift voucher markups, and dealing with fraud.